Bush tells Americans: "This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in."

[sabra]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/01/23/sotu.bush.transcript/index.html#7

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This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in. Every one of us wishes that this war were over and won. Yet it would not be like us to leave our promises unkept, our friends abandoned, and our own security at risk. Ladies and gentlemen: On this day, at this hour, it is still within our power to shape the outcome of this battle. So let us find our resolve, and turn events toward victory.

[bdamomma]

1. what a fuckin deluisonal man, this is not the fight we entered in

Iraq????? please get this guy some psychiatric care. Now Please.

[SharonAnn]

15. Umm, this is the fight we entered into. * just didn't know it. He's incompetent.

[MikeNearMcChord]

2. Who's we? I had no dog in that fight.

And last I checked, none of the 19 hijackers where Iraqi.

[Philosoraptor]

3. When stupid slogans ruled the land.

[Gruenemann]

4. Hey, shit-for-brains!

There WAS no fight till you started it, asshole!

[Sugar Smack]

5. Americans tell Bush: "Fuck off; you lost."

[bdamomma]

20. how can we get that message to him, oh, let's bring the message

to him on January 27th.

[Avalux]

6. What the hell "victory"????

The idiot hasn't given us a definition or a timeline, just keeps spewing his usual nonsense. He's right about one thing though - it isn't the fight we entered, so the resolution voted on years ago is obsolete. Time for a new resolution telling Bush enough is enough.

[mikeytherat]

10. Great minds think alike (your mind is two minutes faster than mine!)

See my post below!

mikey_the_rat

[Sequoia]

7. "...you go to war with the army you have

not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." Rumsfield

[mikeytherat]

8. Sweet Zombie Jesus! Would someone, ANYONE, please ask the following:

WHAT, exactly, is "victory" in Iraq. We keep hearing this phrase from Team BushCo, his enablers in the media, members of Congress but, to date, NO ONE has been able to explain what this mythical "victory" is. And I want this definition quantified: metrics, guidelines, goals - not some ethereal "freedom and democracy in the Middle East."

I'd give my left nut if anyone confronted the Presznit and demanded a quantifiable answer to this question, and gave no quarter until he or she got one.

mikey_the_rat

[dad]

19. Exactly

+1 mikey the rat.

You've just stated in print what I've said 500 times. WHAT ... CONSTITUTES .. VICTORY ???? Why is no one asking him this?

[radfringe]

9. channeling rumsfeld

rumsfeld "As you know, you have to go to war with the Army you have, not the Army you want"

"This is not the fight we entered in Iraq, but it is the fight we are in"
--George W. Bush, State of the Union, January 23, 2007

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. A few points if I may

The fight he entered into didn't exist in the first place. It consisted of lies that they created in order to validate attacking Iraq.

His attacking Iraq under false pretenses and then having no regard for the disaster that would follow is what created the current circumstances.

The way I see this this is the war he entered into, it's just that he was too short sighted to realize he couldn't fool the majority of Americans forever.

[Virginia Dare]

12. No, asshole, it's the fight YOU entered in...

and it's the fight our fucking military is in, one which is unwinnable, not to mention a huge fucking money pit which is draining our treasury and robbing our children and grandchildren of a future.

YOU'RE AN IDIOT AND A FUCKWAD, no get out of the way and take that fat slob Cheney with you and let some real leaders step in.

[zbdent]

13. They never did thank Clinton's army for the great job it did

before Bush mucked it up and sent things off on the Iraq tangent ...

[JohnnyLib2]

14. Word games. Distortion. Reframing. Revision.

I smell Roviavellian technique at work.

[moondust]

16. Ted Kennedy's binding resolution

takes this into account and requires that Dumbass go back to Congress for RE-authorization to continue this much different conflict than what was authorized by the original IWR. Let the people decide!

[SammyWinstonJack]

18. Ah but george is the Decider and HE has decided we WILL HAVE VICTORY!

At any and all costs, just not for him and his base, THE HAVES AND HAVE MORES. Everyone else, especially the Iraqi people can go cheney themselves!

[tjwash]

17. What do you mean WE paleface? You got a fucking mouse in your pocket?

Unbelievable. He's the little kid that goes into the house, fucks up the kitchen, and then screams "MOOOOOM, the kitchen needs cleaned.

He's proving once again that he's nothing but another corporate tool who allows American soldiers to die for profits. ":banghead:


On the other hand...Maybe he's actually admitting that his failed mission in Iraq is not the one he was authorized to perform. Maybe Congress should think about drafting a resolution that spells out what the chimp is authorized to do.